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Anecdotes Of The Passions And Vicissitudes Of Gamesters

'Lord Castlefort rested with his arms on the table:--a false
tooth had got unhinged. His Lordship, who, at any other time,
would have been most annoyed, coolly put it in his pocket. His
cheeks had fallen, and he looked twenty years older.

'Lord Dice had torn off his cravat, and his hair flung down over
his callous, bloodless checks, straight as silk.

'Temple Grace looked as if he were blighted by lightning; and his
deep-blue eyes gleamed like a hyaena.

'The baron was least changed.

'Tom Cogit, who smelt that the crisis was at hand, was as quiet
as a bribed rat.

'On they played till six o'clock in the evening, and then they
agreed to desist till after dinner. Lord Dice threw himself on a
sofa. Lord Castlefort breathed with difficulty. The rest walked
about. While they were resting on their oars, the young duke
roughly made up his accounts. He found that he was minus about
L100,000.

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